Originally Posted by Rhabbi
Writing is about using the fewest words to express your ideas.
Glad to see I started a debate. I will admit I said this wrong this the wrong way. What I meant to say is writing short stories is about using the fewest words to express your ideas.

Nothing against Thomas Wolfe, he could make a sentence dance, and most people cannot. Besides, I sincerely believe that that particular idea could not be expressed in fewer words, and I would challenge anyone to convey it in fewer. And he was writing a novel there.